Abraham &Sarah - my apologies for not responding earlier

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Ian & Pam Dorion wrote:

> 

> IAN

> >  Again, when Sarah is 89 years of age and Abraham 99 years of age, at a

> >  time when they both fall on their faces laughing at God for saying Sarah 

> >  would get pregnant, they again pawn her off on king Abimelech as

> >  Abraham’s virgin sister.... 


(snipped for brevity)


> Ian Dorion (aka Edwin Edwards O'Toole; Bastard Prince of all Arabia)

> Good Christians make good Nazis


Dear Ian:

My apologies for not addressing this much earlier. You seem to be
obsessed with it! I agree, the Abraham and Sarah stories have bizarre
aspects to them. I think that Abraham and Sarah really existed, but
their ages and the details of their stories became exaggerated over
time, before the stories were actually written down. I believe that
Sarah thought she was in menopause when she became pregnant with Isaac.
Maybe her real age was about 45 instead of 89 or 90. The storytellers
may have inflated her age in order to emphasize how unexpected the
blessing of Isaac's birth was. Forgive me for speculating about the
details. I think that the storytellers were just focusing on what they
believed was God's promise to Abraham and Sarah; they did not worry
about the fact that some aspects of the tale were exaggerated. 

I know this won't be satisfactory to you, so I suppose we will be
revisiting the Abraham and Sarah stories again. There are also many
other questions I have yet to address from people on this mailing list.
I will be going away again next week - I will be taking a class on
economic forecasting. After that, I am not sure when I will be posting
again for a while. I discovered that there is a limit to the total
number of messages I can have in all my folders, so I may have to
xnxscribe temporarily. But of course I would re-sxscribe when I return.

Why do you include the gratuitously insulting statement "Good Christians
make good Nazis"? Many of the top Nazis were inspired by pagan Nordic
myths, not by Christianity. Those Nazis who claimed to be Christian were
not "good Christians". Joseph Stalin was an atheist, but I would not say
that he was a "good atheist".

~Claire O'Connor

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